Apparatus for forming wax-ends.



. N or 627,826. Patented June 27, I899.

J... F. MEBRiLL.

APPABATUS FOR FORMENG WAX ENDS. I

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No. 627,826. Patented June 27, I899.

J. F. MERRiLL. I,

APPARATUS FOR FmmmewAx- ENDS. (Application filed Dec. 1, 1898.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT 5 FFICIE.

APPARATUS FOR FORM ING WAX-ENDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 0. 627,826, dated June 27, 1899.

Application filed December 1, 1898-: Serial No. 697,961. (No model.)

To all who/rt it may col warn: I

Be it known that I, JOSEPH F. MERRILL,'a

citizen of the United States, residing in Bosspecification, like letters on the d rawin gs representing like parts. i

This invention relates to an apparatus for making wax-ends, such as now commonly used in the manufacture of boots and shoes, harnesses, &c. a p

My present invention has for its object to produce a superior wax-end and to cheapen the cost of production of 11183211116, and I accomplish my object in a manner as will be hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is aside elevation of an apparatus with which wax-ends maybe made in accordance with myinvention; Fig. 2, atop or plan view of the apparatus. shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, across-section taken on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, looking toward the left.

In accordance with this invention a skein A of threads, each comprising a plurality of strands, in the present instance siX in numher, is firmly secured at its opposite ends by suitable clamping devices A A mounted upon a suitable base, table, or support A The clamping devices A A are separated 'a distance less than the length of the skein A, so that the threads of said skein may be slack to facilitate the separation of the same into wax-ends. i

The skein A may and preferably will be supported above the table A bysuitable uprights a, having bent or curved fingers aand which are arranged on said table substantially as shown in Fig. 2-.-namely, toward the rear of the table and back of a straight line extended through the two clamping devices A A The table A between the clamping devices A A and substantially in a straight line therewith, has erected upon it two spring jaws or holding devices B B, which may be made as herein shown and each comprising upright metal pieces a a separated at their upper ends and fastened together, as by a screw a the said upright pieces having feet a, which may be fastened to the table, as by screws a I I The spring clamping devices or jaws B B are open at theirtop to permitthe ready insertion into them ofthe thread which is to be provided with tapered ends. e

The skein-clamping devices A A may be of any suitable construction and in the prese'nt instance are shown as'each composed of a platen b, movable vertically by a screwattached to an upright b erected upon the table, the upright between the arms of the yoke constituting the stationary jaw of the clam p and the platen the movable jaw thereof.

The method of transfdrming the skein A, comprising endless threads suitably held together to form the skein, into two groups or bunches'of threads having tapered ends is as follows: The operator, usuallya girl, secures places the portion of the skein between the clamps upon the supportsc and preferably holds the skein onthe endmost supports by pieces of thread 0,, wound around said supthread off from the intermediate supports and untwists it with her fingers to open up the gers back in'opposite directions to take out the untwisted portion of the thread. The strand-holdin g clamps firmly hold the strands and prevent them twisting up, and while the each strand of the thread at a diiferent point between the strand-holding jaws, thereby immore uniformly tapered [and smoother than ends heretofore made and known to me by reason of the fact that the thread is firmly clamped by the spring-jaws a a The tapered ends of the thread thus separated are removed from the spring-jaws and assume the position twisting, separating the strands, inserting them into the spring-jaws, and separating the individual strands at different points is repeated until the skein has been severed into two bunches or lots of tapered ends ready to be waxed. The tapered ends are commonly ports above the skein.. She then takes a strands, and when opened .she runs her fin the 'twist of the thread back to the strand holding clamps B B, into which she inserts parting to the thread tapered ends, which are indicated in Fig. 2, and the process of unthreaded rod 1), extended through a yoke 5 the ends of the skeinin the clamps A A and strands are'thus held she breaks or separates I 7 and stationary thread-holding jaws separated from each other and erected upon said base or table substantially in line with said skeinholding clamps, and each comprising springjaws separated at their top to receive and hold the separated strands of the individual 20 threads While the said strands are being broken, substantially as described.

2. An apparatus for forming wax -ends from a skein of twisted threads, each thread comprising a plurality of strands, which consists of a table or base, clamping devices erected thereupon for holding the ends of the skein,

. and thread-holding jaws separated from each other and erected upon said base or table substantially in line with said skein-holding clamps and each comprising spring-jaws separated at their top to receive and hold the separated strands of the individual threads While the said strands are being broken, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH F. MERRILL. fitnesses:

J AS. H. CHURCHILL, J. MURPHY. 

